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RMS Protest Song On Gitmo
An anonymous reader tipped us to a protest song RMS has written and recorded (while visiting Cuba) and is hosting on stallman.org. It's a sort of parody, although it's too serious really to be called that, in Spanish of the song "Guantanamera," in which a Gitmo prisoner talks about his experiences and mourns his fate. RMS wrote the lyrics in 2006 after learning what "Guantanamera" actually means. The lyrics are moving, and the recording, in Ogg, is competent — RMS sings well and he's got some amateur musicians from Cuba backing him up. Here are the lyrics and an English translation.
...only reinforce the view that Stallman and his crowd are a bunch of communists.
He should stick to what he's good at, writing software.
I wonder how he managed to visit Cuba without violating the federal law that prohibits US citizens from trading with our enemies.
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
This comes off as preachy. No one wants to listen to that. It's much better to describe it than to spell it out.
Let's bitch about Gitmo. Only one pillow per prisoner, the temperature is sligtly out of whack, the food is unnaceptable -- too much fat, they're getting chubby. Why not write a song about real torture instead of panties on someones head and loud Chili Pepper music?
Yes, and we all know how honest islamofascists are.
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is, in short, the solution for Mac and Windows users who want to use Xiph formats in any QuickTime-based application, e.g. playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes or producing Ogg Theora with iMovie. It lets you do exactly what you want to do, play Ogg in iTunes. But I don't want to install another plug-in just to play a proprietary format like OGG. I would like to listen to it in a open standard format. Is OGG an officially published standard or do developers have to agree to a license and include source code from the project in their product in the form of a plug-in? If the latter, then that to me is the very definition of proprietary. It does not matter if the source is open if there is not an open standard to go along with it.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
I think people who were wavering about whether what we are doing in Guantanamo is right, will come down on the side of Bush when they see unkempt hippie commies like RMS singing their juvenile "protest" songs. WAKE UP people - we are at WAR after all. RMS should be put on trial for treason...
How is it an open standard if it is not published to a standards organization? Do I have to included code from the originators of the project? Are there terms and conditions on use. What is your definition of an open "standard"?
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Yet, I do not see any other implementations of the format other than from that site. It is not an open standard until other groups/entities make use of it.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Show me an implementation of the format which is independent of the code they provide on the site. Show me a plugin from another entity other than the creators of the format. It may or may not be technically possible to re-impliment a codec based on their published documentation but until I see one, it will remain an open source but proprietary codec of that organization.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
BFD
And in other insignificant RMS fanbody/cult news:
RMS eats a meal!
RMS breathes!
RMS blows his nose!
What's next? RMS and Lyndon LaRouche announce their ticket for the 2008 US Presidential elections?
I agree with you, sir! Fucking communist.
The Cuban government also has a prison in Guantanamo, near the American one. Search the Internet on what happens there. Compare to what happens on the American version. Then come talk to me how America is evil.
And no, I'm not American and I don't live on USA. But I wish I could.
Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.
The U.S is a nasty place, no freedoms, Bush is a dictator, blah blah blah.
There are few countries in this world where the U.S. hasn't gone in and saved their ass from something or someone.
We spend more money on international aid than anyone else.
Yeah, we toast son's of bitches that commit capital crimes, but it takes 10 years and millions of dollars, unlike your precious Palestinian terrorist government that will go from accusation to execution in a few hours...usually skipping the trial.
Bush sacked U.S. Prosecutors you moron, not judges. And there was nothing wrong with it because those jobs are political appointments.
I am so tired of punk wads bitching and moaning about the U.S. while their own little third world, backwater hovel is taking money (my money) from us.
And if you don't have the guts to sign on and let everyone know who you are, then you can just sit down and shut the F**k up.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
the sons and daughters of democratic countries have their sympathies with the treatment of mostly terrorist assholes, imprisoned on an island which is mostly a totalitarian state?
it's kind of like looking at a molehill, and seeing great evil, and spending all of your time obsessing about it... and completely forgetting the mountain right over your shoulder
it's really odd to me
kind of an inability to have perspective, to understand scale, to perceive context
if the treatment of the prisoners in guantanamo bay were the largest problem facing the world, which the attention pointed to it would seem to suggest, then the world would be a very wonderful place
as it is, for every single issue you are worried about, if guantamo bay is the penultimate example of that issue in your mind, you seem to be extremely deprived of contact with the reality as things be in most of the world
why guantanamo garners so much attnetion, to me this speaks of people out of touch with the reality of the world, it speaks to me of western children
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it